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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: your true face
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:02:42 -0400 (EDT)
your true face http://www.alansondheim.org/ossioswalda.jpg our companion cat, temporarily blinded by seizure your true face your real face before you were born your vajra face your dorje face before you arrived you arrived and never arrived before you were born you departed and never departed after you were born you are burning face with the light of an extinguished candle you are true face with the darkness of a burning flame your original face your true face darkness and light your original face your true face before you were born when i die your true face your original face written large in the world under erasure of no-thing, no-one, but i say many, and i say space and time and i say, pure space and time and the great horizon which is boundless and unremarkable and we are all ceased and all seized and all an ontology and all striking a vajra into the heart of buddhism a dorje into the eyes of buddhism and this is unremarkable and boundless Original face - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_face Wikipedia Once you have realized your own true self, the depth (in Zen) rather belongs to you! ... Quiet your thoughts and behold your Original Face before you were born! Green Koans Case 12: The Original Face | Tricycle www.tricycle.com Magazine Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Sep 19, 2010 - What face did you have before your parents were born? The question ... A true Zen master never asks to see something that isn't already there. How real is your reality? - Management-Issues www.management-issues.com/opinion/6256/how-real-is-your-reality/ Aug 3, 2011 - If you put 200 completely different people in a theatre and then ... Our true face before we were born is actually who we were (and still are!) ... [PDF]The face of reality and a zen koan - True North Partnering www.truenorthpartnering.com/sites/.../The%20face%20of%20reality.pdf If you put 200 people, diverse in as many ways as possible, in a theatre and then project the world ... says: "Show me your original face before you were born. What was my face before I was born. - NewBuddhist newbuddhist.com Discussions Meditation Jul 10, 2014 - 41 posts - 17 authors So what was your face, before you were born? How do you .... When you understand why that answer is true, you begin to penetrate the koan. 0. a really beautiful koan - NewBuddhist newbuddhist.com Discussions Buddhism Basics Oct 18, 2011 - 13 posts - 7 authors What face did you have before your parents were born? ... was wind? A true Zen master never asks to see something that isn't already there." 0. Your original face - Bodhi Zendo www.bodhizendo.org/face.htm When you look into your own true self, whatever is deeper is found right there. ... is asked as 'what was your original face before even your parents were born? | meaning is a carving of the other by the other in the original face and then "through it, back to our original face." our original face is never ours alone, is always elsewhere our original face is always elsewhere, always others. we are blind beneath, extricate the flesh from the flesh. our original face is flesh. in our work, we work the original face. we play against technology, upwards beyond the possibility of body, organism, original face! Are you | meaning is a carving of the other by the other in the original face the original face faces no other: creativity begins to dry its original of others; we claw through it back to our original face; the tongue, nub original face, is flesh. in our work, this trembling scatters; objects work the original face. we play against technology, memory, direct and of others; we claw through it back to our original face; the tongue, nub, we shall seize, unremarkable, we shall cease